Flanker562

From what I noticed when doing the Blue Angels skins, least with the column5 F/A-18A, is that it's actually part of the model, as well as an ini edit. I've tried that on other aircraft, but it may just be "hardcoded" for the AGM-65E and AGM-88C HARM. BTW Southernap, got any more pics you fee like sharing on Bugs? Or anything current?

lol you know with lobbies come with pundits, and also consultants, so okay fine, tomorrow I'll release what I have done I have some done Blue Angels skins, I've been lazy to finish them, so if you want them, I can let them go as I got other projects to worry about.

I know for the Crimean Air Wars mod for LOMAC there were some "Agressor" schemes developed for the Su-27 (they jigggered it, along with Russian a/c, to be on the USA side) and were done, but still when Marcfighter gets the remapped Su-27 done, I may do a few for the one Falcon161 did.

http://avia.russian.ee/gallery/picture.php?dir=g91&p=10 That's probably the best I can find. There's little information, and what information there is, isn't enough AFAIK. The FS3 has a downloadable (try google?) version with an Army Scheme, so that's probably your best bet.

Yeah that's the correct link, don't know why it's coming up with that stuff...

There's a good topic I found last night (Vampyre can probably tell you) on the Fighter Ops forums that Sundowner from Poland outlines some deficiencies (thrust to weight, speed of course critical) of the SH. I agree to the point that if it had a better speed and longer ranged armament, it could do the job as effective as the Tomcat. But that's pretty much what the SH is good for, bombing the bejeezus (okay, if the detractors are right, reach it) out of somebody, as it's got the space and pylons for it. Given the report from Carlo Kopp it sheds some more light on the subject. And a topic I read on the VNFA website pretty much said that the Navy needed something New NOW. The Tomcat will always be a fond memory, but when you're looking at basically spending alot of money to revamp a 1970s era aircraft to which parts are becoming scarce (factories aren't even producing the parts, at least some of them, and more than likely won't retool, and to update the fire control suite, you had to literally rewire it, and there wasn't any emphasis for that. They got enough money to at least get the LANTIRN pods for it, which I'm sure alot of grunts downrange are glad for), and you have to use scrap from AMARC, which adds to the bill. Instead you got the bean counters saying "Hey this plane, it's not as great as the Tomcat, it saves money and furthermore, it's rolling off the assembly line, and we don't have to search the whole planet for spares." Plus pilots like the reliability, so that's more planes in the air, and etc. etc. About the only mission I would say in somewhat defense of the SH, is that Tomcat never could to airborne refuelling, or at least perform the tanker role which was of course lost when the KA-6D was retired too. Could they have modified Tomcats? Of course, but that didn't happen. Sure the SH needs more fuel, but nobody (not even the Navy bean counters) wanted to improve the Tomcat either, as it itself was a victim of politics. I mean we can always like or hate the SH, and forever love the Tomcat, but whatever we think, the US Navy made it's decision, right or wrong, and we just have to live with their decision.

least it wasn't a porn site!

But given the fact it will be updated, I'll pause this project as well. I got another Tomcat (a couple really) that I need to get busy on, so when Marcfighter uploads his revised Flanker, then I'll continue.

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lol I think squinting in the dark is preferable... And I thought I had alot of time on my hands..

Well since you bring that up, it has been a minute since I owned it too...

http://www.janes.com/defence/air_forces/ne...01013_1_n.shtml

Well so far the only thing that's given me issues was around the radome where the fuselage meets it. Other than that it's worked out fine for me. But that's cool to see what happens. Oh yeah the area around the intakes gave me a little annoyance, but still got it working fine

Thanks!

Thanks!

Well generally I tend to get the same results at the outset, which happens anyways. Its when you start to weather it, or adjust the opacity (that may be the issue) to a degree. Another cheap, easy but effective technique is to make another layer, paint bucket it with gray (128,128,128) and then use Noise to make it all pixelated (what you like is up to you, but 1.0 to 2.0 is a resonable value) that gets rid of the smoothness of a texture color. Then set the layer type to "Overlay" and you got a cheap a$$ noise layer that just works. Maybe a screenshot or two and we can see how cartoonish? Adding some generic weathering to the Su-27. Ukrainian Flankers tend to be alot cleaner than most, and the ones from 2004 (latest I could get from Airliners.net) show them dirty, but just that, not DIRTY) aren't that bad off, so mine isn't going to reflect that too much:

Well there was also the "Mig-37 Ferret" that was done AFAIK as a Testors model that I had bought and lost so long ago.

There are times when you just don't want to know, and this is one of them

foxmonter is working on his own mod, and so far no more news.. but hopefully he'll finish it.

You'd have to import it into Woe/SF1 and then get it working. What's in there is just the model itself in gmax format. In a sense it's the files needed to get it working, but it's basically not complete by any means.

That made my day

Trust me man, it's one of those jobs where you just walk the fine line sometimes, and it's hard, maybe for me in light of recent events, to not cross it, but once you do... Game on and then you're dodging your other Moderators, or whoever, and sometimes you gotta be defanged but that's something else. Matter of fact I still have Moderator nightmares from the Ubi forums. I just don't go back there man, there's nothing more for me there. EDIT: Well I stopped back there and still have Moderator status, so I guess I'm still "active" though I figured Xinterface would have let me go.. oh well.. And the bad thing is, I'm in the training environment (well okay, this is my last week!!!!), and I see the same crap here online, that I see with the Privates. There's no escape, but Friday there will be! But the point is we get the same stuff, gimme gimme gimme. Sure there are somethings I can't do, but there somethings I can, and I try and stay within those limits. And if I can't help modelling or texture-wise (last one hypothetically), then hell I can always take the time to find ref photos, whatever.

Ahh okay, I saw her in "Leisure Hive" so that's why I was interested. To be honest with you I think Tamm looked better, but that's me. Anyways, it's all good, as I've only looked at some of the extra material on the DVDs, given that I'm starting a collection...